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Yamada - Nagauta Symphony, etc | Naxos - Japanese Classics 8557971

Yamada - Nagauta Symphony, etc

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Label: Naxos - Japanese Classics

Cat No: 8557971

Barcode: 0747313297122

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Touon Tetsuo Miyata
Nagauta Vocalists
Touon Toru Ajimi
Shamisen
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Takuo Yuasa

Works

Yamada, Koscak

Choreographic Symphony 'Maria Magdalena'
Nagauta Symphony 'Tsurukame'
Symphony 'Inno Meiji'

Artists

Touon Tetsuo Miyata
Nagauta Vocalists
Touon Toru Ajimi
Shamisen
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Takuo Yuasa

About

Kósçak Yamada was the first great composer to emerge from Japan after it had begun to accept western classical music. After studies with Max Bruch, Yamada was the first Japanese composer to write symphonies and operas. 
 
Nagauta Symphony is an epoch-making work that attempts the fusion of western music and nagauta, Japanese traditional vocal music performed with instruments including the three-stringed shamisen, fues (Japanese flutes) and percussion. In this work, Yamada takes a classic nagauta piece of 1857 to which he adds his original orchestral music. 
 
Sinfonia ‘Inno Meiji’ is effectively a symphonic poem which depicts Japan on the way to westernisation from the latter half of the 19th century through to the early 20th century. It combines a big orchestra with the hichiriki, an ancient Japanese double reed wind instrument, and other Asian instruments. 
 
The sumptuous Maria Magdalena, scored for a large orchestra and influenced by the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, was first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1919.

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